Fitness

38 readers

1 users here now

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

odin@lemmy.world

Favourite Food Scales? (self.fitness)

submitted 2 years ago by lwgrs to c/fitness@lemmy.world

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hey everyone! I want to have food scales in two different locations (I am frequently at my in-law's house several hours away from my own home), and my solution is to bring my old scale here, and get a new scale for at my own home.

Does the fediverse have any tips for a good, relatively inexpensive scale. It's important that it displays weight in grams - it would be great if there are decimals for grams, but in my experience it's incredibly hard to find this.

Bonus if you are Canadian and have recommendations on where to buy in Canada as opposed to, say, amazon.com.

Thanks! :)

top 8 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] ineedtosleep@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From my experience, if you need more significant digits (i.e. 1.5g or 1.05g) for grams you should look into a coffee scale. For my purposes the only things that need that level of accuracy are from baking (mostly for yeast and salt weights). For most other cases, I have a super cheap one (https://www.amazon.com/Ozeri-ZK14-S-Digital-Multifunction-Kitchen/dp/B004164SRA) and something more significant when I need to weigh something bulky (https://www.amazon.com/OXO-Grips-Stainless-Pull-Out-Display/dp/B079D9B82W).

[–] lwgrs 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks! :)

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Decent coffee scale is decent 🤭 I had it shipped from the US. There might be better options for you though.

[–] lwgrs 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind though! I assume that's $46 USD though...yeah not exactly ideal. But it's a good starting point for researching similar models.

[–] angrylittlekitty@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i personally like and have used the escali for years and recently bought the amazon basics for macro tracking - both work a treat. particularly like the amazon for being able to weigh ml and fl oz which my old escali couldn't

[–] lwgrs 1 points 2 years ago

Ah yes...I forgot about that as well. My current scale can switch to mL and I find that useful, although I don't know if it is actually calibrated any differently for mL vs. grams.

[–] giraffebiscuit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have this one. I'm sorry I'm in the US but I love this scale because it can use batteries or be plugged in. I also use it for my baking projects.

[–] lwgrs 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for sharing anyway! It appears to exist on amazon.ca but is $64 CAD or so.